User Experience Fundamentals

A short course that introduces you to the principles and process of designing a great user experience

About This Course

OVER 7,000 SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UP FOR THIS COURSE

If you design a product that people interact with, then you are designing a user experience. If you want your product to be easy to use, engaging, what people expect, and meet the goals of the organization, then you want to make sure you design an optimal user experience. In this course you will learn the basic principles and processes of a good user experience, and what a user experience professional should know and be able to do.

You will learn:

What does it mean to design the user experience (UX)?

Principles of user experience design

What makes for a good UX process?

Different UX roles, what they do

The skills and knowledge that a user experience professional needs

Obstacles to creating a great user experience and how to overcome them

This course is a FREE course and it is the first course in our full User Experience Certificate curriculum. Once you register for the course you can access it 24 hours a day, and learn at your own pace on either a desktop, laptop or mobile device.

Become a learner. Click the "Register" button at the top of this page now and get started right away to learn the fundamentals of user experience.

People who work with user experience professionals and want to better understand what they do

About The Instructor: Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D. (aka, The Brain Lady)

Susan Weinschenk has a Ph.D. in Psychology and over 30 years of experience as a behavioral scientist. She applies research in psychology to predict, understand, and explain what motivates people and how they behave. Her work includes training, presenting, and consulting in communications, customer experience, user experience, and usability. She is a consultant and keynote speaker for Fortune 1000 companies, start-ups, non-profit agencies, educational institutions, and conferences. Her clients include Walmart, Disney, The Mayo Clinic, Charles Schwab, and Best Buy.

Dr. Weinschenk is the author of several books, including 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People, 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People, How to Get People To Do Stuff, 100 Things Every Presenter Needs To Know About People, and Neuro Web Design: What makes them click? Her nickname is The Brain Lady, because she applies research on the brain and neuroscience to design. She is the CEO and Chief Behavioral Scientist at The Team W, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.

If you design a product that people interact with, then you are designing a user experience. If you want your product to be easy to use, engaging, what people expect, and meet the goals of the organization, then you want to make sure you design an optimal user experience. In this course you will learn the basic principles and processes of a good user experience, and what a user experience professional should know and be able to do.

You will learn:

What does it mean to design the user experience (UX)?

Principles of user experience design

What makes for a good UX process?

Different UX roles, what they do

The skills and knowledge that a user experience professional needs

Obstacles to creating a great user experience and how to overcome them

This course is a FREE course and it is the first course in our full User Experience Certificate curriculum. Once you register for the course you can access it 24 hours a day, and learn at your own pace on either a desktop, laptop or mobile device.

Become a learner. Click the "Register" button at the top of this page now and get started right away to learn the fundamentals of user experience.

People who work with user experience professionals and want to better understand what they do

About The Instructor: Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D. (aka, The Brain Lady)

Susan Weinschenk has a Ph.D. in Psychology and over 30 years of experience as a behavioral scientist. She applies research in psychology to predict, understand, and explain what motivates people and how they behave. Her work includes training, presenting, and consulting in communications, customer experience, user experience, and usability. She is a consultant and keynote speaker for Fortune 1000 companies, start-ups, non-profit agencies, educational institutions, and conferences. Her clients include Walmart, Disney, The Mayo Clinic, Charles Schwab, and Best Buy.

Dr. Weinschenk is the author of several books, including 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People, 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People, How to Get People To Do Stuff, 100 Things Every Presenter Needs To Know About People, and Neuro Web Design: What makes them click? Her nickname is The Brain Lady, because she applies research on the brain and neuroscience to design. She is the CEO and Chief Behavioral Scientist at The Team W, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.